Ignoring public opinion, the presidential election was held → New president decided by factional votes… “Maybe the prime minister should be an AI now!”

It’s like an AI “model answer”…

The LDP presidential election started off with the slogan of “a fresh start from the party,” but in the end the election was decided in the old fashioned way, with no candidate showing a willingness to tackle the “politics and money problem” head on.

After spending the entire election campaign since the defeat in the Upper House election, the public could not be expected to pay much attention to the inward-looking election of a new LDP president, which prioritized intra-party harmony with the same members as a year ago. It is no wonder that public opinion was not energized by the election.

The LDP presidential election was viewed coldly by most of the public. All of the candidates made only innocuous remarks and did not make any aggressive assertions. Their originality was also modest. The content of the candidates’ speeches was square and square, and we saw a lot of ridicule on social networking sites, with comments such as, “It’s just like an AI’s answer,” and “If that’s the case, why don’t we just have an AI as a politician?

Kazuya Ogawa, an entrepreneur and AI researcher who is developing an AI business, pointed out.

If each candidate had put forward his or her policies in terms that could be said to resonate with the people because they are human, they might have attracted a little more public attention. However, all they said were mechanical statements that could be answered by AI.

Many of the people are familiar with the use of generated AI, such as ChatGPT, and they are aware of the greatness of AI.

From the public’s point of view, it is tempting to lament, ‘Is this the level of someone who is trying to be a leader of a country? I think that the people who are fed up with politicians after the recent presidential election are saying, ‘AI should be a politician.

Contrary to growing LDP calls for Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru to step down following his defeat in the Upper House election, a majority of respondents to an August poll conducted by media outlets said that there was no need for him to quit. The LDP, however, has flatly ignored public calls for “Ishiba not to resign. The “politicians are fine with AI” may have also reflected the people’s frustration that they do not want Diet members who do not listen to the voice of the people.

The basis of democracy is not “consensus among the LDP,” but “consensus building among the people. However, politicians are not fully aware of the people’s wishes. This frustration was evident in their voting behavior in the Upper House election. Those who had been calling for Mr. Ishiba not to resign since the Upper House election were frustrated by the fact that they could not participate in the consensus building process.

Moreover, in the latter half of the presidential election, the issue of guiding public opinion, which could distort democracy, emerged. I think this made the people really think that they no longer need politicians who can only speak at the same level as AI and who cannot follow ethics.

Yes, the only topics that made headlines during the presidential election were “stealth” and “deer in Nara.

Black box”…AI doesn’t fit in Japanese politics?

In Europe, the theory of “no need for politicians” has been raised for several years, and in Denmark in 2010, an “artificial party” was created in which an AI serves as party leader. In Albania, the world’s first AI cabinet minister was born this year.

Whether it is ” AI politicians” or “politicians with AI,” there is no doubt about the use of AI in politics. Leaders of all developed countries must believe that politics is not possible without AI.

The humanization of AI is progressing, and AI is becoming more “human-like. At this point in time, AI makes decisions based on rationality, so it is easy to think that it tends to dismiss the opinions of the weak and the minority. However, although AI is rational, it is also acquiring intelligence that does not discard them out of hand.

One option is to leave rational decisions to AI because of its high data analysis capability, and to let politicians pick up the humanistic aspects. However, as AI’s intelligence improves, it will also be able to scoop up the will of a minority of the people and come up with balanced policies. AI will be able to do the jobs that humans are better at.

That, too, could happen within the next few years, he says.

” Given the technological advances that can change in a day, in five years, more and more AI politicians and leaders in various countries will be said to be better performers than their human counterparts, ” he says. It seems likely that we will see the emergence of AI politicians with popular avatars, which will increase their likability.

In Japan, a graduate student at Kyoto University, who has been appointed as the new representative of the regional political party “The Way of Rebirth,” is planning to use AI in the party’s decision-making process.

What ‘The Path of Renewal’ is trying to do is just the beginning; as the use of AI becomes more prevalent, its use will become more serious in Japan, and I think it will evolve discontinuously.

The latest version of ChatGPT, GPT5, was released in August of this year, and its performance, including its reasoning ability, has been improved. After five years, it is possible that there will be a louder voice in Japan saying, ‘AI is good enough for politicians.

Denmark has a high level of transparency in politics and a strong sense of political participation among its citizens. How would AI work in such a country?

In Denmark, politics has always been highly transparent, so I think AI is a good fit as something that contributes to transparency and is easy to promote.

I think it will be difficult for AI to penetrate into the Japanese political system unless we get rid of the politics of interest in the first place.

It is hard to believe that politicians who think black-boxing is a good thing will actively promote the introduction of AI.

As long as the people inside the black box think that the current political system exists because it is not made transparent, the use of AI in politics in Japan will probably lag far behind that of other countries.

As AI becomes more humanized and understands the meaning of “slush funds” and “discovery,” it may be easier for Japanese politicians to adopt it. However, if AI becomes able to make discoveries, there will be no one who wants to see the birth of AI politicians. ……

For example, if you teach it that back-channeling and discovery are necessary evils, it will not accept it, because it is believed that “public AIs” used in politics should be designed to reject anything unethical. Many international frameworks and ethical guidelines require that AIs be designed to comply with laws and ethics.

The desire to “listen to the voice of the people” may be there, but it is unrealistic…then “AI” will do the job

Sanae Takaichi, the new president of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), inaugurated the party’s new executive committee on April 7. The executive appointments, which include the names of the only remaining factions and lawmakers involved in the slush fund case, have been criticized on social networking sites, with some asking, “What part of this is a dissolution-like fresh start?

The LDP is currently the minority ruling party in both the House of Representatives and the House of Councillors. It is not a given that the president will become prime minister. However, the opposition parties have neither the will nor the potential to seize power. Why not have the new coalition cabinet be led by an “AI prime minister”?

In the future, an AI prime minister may be born, but he or she will not be a leader of a coalition government. In the future, we cannot deny the possibility that a country may even have an AI prime minister.

The rest will depend on whether humans are able to master AI. At present, for example, prompts are one such example.

Prompts are verbal instructions or questions that humans give to AI.

Prompts can make or break an AI’s response. If we can establish a system that can use AI well, including prompts, the use of AI in politics will advance, and an AI cabinet formed by AI ministers and bureaucrats to support an AI prime minister can lead the government to make the best policies.

While not denying the possibility of a shift from human to AI decision makers, Ogawa also mentions what needs to be done to prevent “human politicians” from being completely replaced by AI.

The true feelings of the people are contained in their tweets and complaints to those close to them. AI is not yet able to track such latent dissatisfaction, stress, and blurred senses that have not yet been converted into data. However, as AI learns more about them, it will be able to capture their true feelings.

Candidates for the presidential race have been talking about ‘listening to the people,’ but this is not realistic because of physical limitations. Even if the president were to appear in front of them, it would be difficult to get straight to the point. It would be better to have all the people throw their complaints to the AI to pick up the true will of the people.

Human politicians should appeal to the people, saying, ‘We will create a system to have AI pick up your voices, so please keep complaining to the dedicated window. Let the AI accurately analyze the will of the people, and then go around the country and communicate with the people in a way that only human politicians can.

Politicians themselves know that it is impossible to face and listen to many citizens directly. They may have the desire to do so, but they cannot achieve it. Then why don’t they make full use of AI, which can serve as a complement to them? The public grows increasingly frustrated with politicians who don’t do what they promise.”

Politicians who actively use AI are more likely to be supported by the public – we may get an answer like this from AI.

Kazuya Ogawa is an entrepreneur and futurist. He is CEO of Grand Design Inc. and a visiting professor at Hokkaido University. He specializes in social system design using AI and has many patents related to AI. In 2012, he was appointed AI Governance Advisor for the City of Osaka. Author of “Will Digital Take Away Humanity?” (Kodansha Gendai Shinsho), “Two Scenarios of Human Extinction” (Asahi Shinsho), and others.